[R] Mutiplying a data frame to a list

[Phil Spector]

Rohit-
    If I understand you correctly, and your list's name is mylist, 
then

   mapply('*',mylist,as.numeric(names(mylist)))

will do what you want.  In the future, please provide a reproducible
example.

 					- Phil Spector
 					 Statistical Computing Facility
 					 Department of Statistics
 					 UC Berkeley
 					 spector at stat.berkeley.edu



On Mon, 21 Feb 2011, Rohit Pandey wrote:

> Hi R community,
>
> I have a question I'm sure is very simple for most of you.
>
> I have a list, with each element being a matrix and the names of the
> elements are numbers (like 1,3,...). I can extract the matrices and the
> names individually. Now, I want to multiply each of the names to the
> individual list matrices (after converting to numbers of course).
>
> I could use a for loop, but the very reason I have this list is that I was
> trying to avoid loops (using lapply). So, turning to one now could defeat
> the whole purpose.
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> -- 
> Thanks,
> Rohit
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